MODULE: Promptly v0.10! Create old-school interactive fiction with a parser!

[deadsuperhero]

This project started off as many do: someone in a chatroom asking a question about how to do something. Someone asked about how to make text scroll in AGS for a parser game, and something about the question got me thinking about how I might do it.



Four days later, I've managed to hack together a working prototype of the module, dusted it off, and named it Promptly.
Promptly can do a couple of unique things, and it's all based on hacks on top of hacks. This text parser can:

• Print out and parse dialog options, and then run them.
• Check inventory items, and interact with them.
• Provides context fallbacks, so that you don't get gummed up switching from, say, working with items, to talking to people.
• Lets you show and hide images for things like dialogue and inspecting items
• Provides scrollback, but lets you take it away in moments that the player needs to focus on just one thing.

There are still a few things I'd like to do with this, such as theme customization / palette swap support for 8-bit projects. Some of the code is a bit messy and requires clean-up, but I'm really happy with what I've managed to accomplish so far. Big shout out to CrimsonWizard for helping me figure out how to split up strings from the parser!

> SOURCE CODE
> DOCUMENTATION

[Joseph DiPerla]

Nice!!! Can't wait to see what else you come up with in this module.